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Title: THE REPRESENTATION OF DICTION AND SOUND IN MUSIC AS THERAPY IN SELECTED GHALLYWOOD AND NOLLYWOOD MOVIES: A CASE STUDY OF PASSION OF THE SOUL (2008) BY FRANK RAJAH ARASE AND A CRY FOR HELP (2002) BY ANDY AMENECHI
Authors: Shaka Ha_an Odilia and Afutendem Lucas Nkwetta
Volume:4 Issue: 2
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Shaka Ha_an Odilia and Afutendem Lucas Nkwetta University of Dschang, Research Centre in Space, Arts and Humanities (CEREAH), Research Group in English and Commonwealth Studies
MLA 8 Odilia, Shaka Ha_an, and Afutendem Lucas Nkwetta. "THE REPRESENTATION OF DICTION AND SOUND IN MUSIC AS THERAPY IN SELECTED GHALLYWOOD AND NOLLYWOOD MOVIES: A CASE STUDY OF PASSION OF THE SOUL (2008) BY FRANK RAJAH ARASE AND A CRY FOR HELP (2002) BY ANDY AMENECHI." Int. J. Arts&Humanities, vol. 4, no. 2, Feb. 2020, pp. 32-48, journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=3. Accessed Feb. 2020. APA(6) Odilia, S., & Nkwetta, A. (2020, February). THE REPRESENTATION OF DICTION AND SOUND IN MUSIC AS THERAPY IN SELECTED GHALLYWOOD AND NOLLYWOOD MOVIES: A CASE STUDY OF PASSION OF THE SOUL (2008) BY FRANK RAJAH ARASE AND A CRY FOR HELP (2002) BY ANDY AMENECHI. Int. J. Arts&Humanities, 4(2), 32-48. Retrieved from journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=3 Chicago Odilia, Shaka Ha_an, and Afutendem Lucas Nkwetta. "THE REPRESENTATION OF DICTION AND SOUND IN MUSIC AS THERAPY IN SELECTED GHALLYWOOD AND NOLLYWOOD MOVIES: A CASE STUDY OF PASSION OF THE SOUL (2008) BY FRANK RAJAH ARASE AND A CRY FOR HELP (2002) BY ANDY AMENECHI." Int. J. Arts&Humanities 4, no. 2 (February 2020), 32-48. Accessed February, 2020. journal-ijah.org/more2019.php?id=3.
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Keywords: language, representation, music, movies, therapy, theories
Abstract: This work investigates and examines how music is represented therapeutically in movies from Africa. Music is the combination of sounds, instruments and words with a view of beauty of form and the expression of thought or feeling. Traditional African music is woven around every event; from birth through to death. Music therapy is the art of using musical sounds in bringing about changes from undesirable unhealthy conditions. The research gap we cover is how diction and sound are represented in movies and incorporated in the wellness process. Apart from medicines produced in laboratories, are there any other sources of therapy? How can music be represented in media to treat patients? The hypotheses are diction and sound in music are therapeutic and apart from getting well through the intake of hospital drugs, we can also go in for soft treatment in the form of music. This is represented through construction, using filmic language, codes and conventions. Structuralist Film Theory and Cultural Film Theory are used as theoretical framework and in analyzing the movies. Data was collected using the simple survey design wherein a qualitative analysis of data was done by reading two movies which were purposely selected to represent music as therapy: Passion of the Soul by Franck Rajah and A Cry for Help by Amenechi. The analysis and results reveal that music is indeed therapeutic as many sick cases both spiritual and psychological are healed through music in the two movies.
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